This model was released on 2019-10-29 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2020-11-16.

BART

BART is a sequence-to-sequence model that combines the pretraining objectives from BERT and GPT. It's pretrained by corrupting text in different ways like deleting words, shuffling sentences, or masking tokens and learning how to fix it. The encoder encodes the corrupted document and the corrupted text is fixed by the decoder. As it learns to recover the original text, BART gets really good at both understanding and generating language.

You can find all the original BART checkpoints under the AI at Meta organization.

The example below demonstrates how to predict the [MASK] token with [Pipeline], [AutoModel], and from the command line.

from transformers import pipeline


fill_mask_pipeline = pipeline(
    task="fill-mask",
    model="facebook/bart-large",
    device=0
)
pipeline("Plants create <mask> through a process known as photosynthesis.")

import torch

from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM, AutoTokenizer


tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
    "facebook/bart-large",
)
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(
    "facebook/bart-large",
    device_map="auto",
    attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
inputs = tokenizer("Plants create <mask> through a process known as photosynthesis.", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**inputs)
    predictions = outputs.logits

masked_index = torch.where(inputs['input_ids'] == tokenizer.mask_token_id)[1]
predicted_token_id = predictions[0, masked_index].argmax(dim=-1)
predicted_token = tokenizer.decode(predicted_token_id)

print(f"The predicted token is: {predicted_token}")

Notes

• Inputs should be padded on the right because BART uses absolute position embeddings.
• The facebook/bart-large-cnn checkpoint doesn't include mask_token_id which means it can't perform mask-filling tasks.
• BART doesn't use token_type_ids for sequence classification. Use [BartTokenizer] or [~PreTrainedTokenizerBase.encode] to get the proper splitting.
• The forward pass of [BartModel] creates the decoder_input_ids if they're not passed. This can be different from other model APIs, but it is a useful feature for mask-filling tasks.
• Model predictions are intended to be identical to the original implementation when forced_bos_token_id=0. This only works if the text passed to fairseq.encode begins with a space.
• [~GenerationMixin.generate] should be used for conditional generation tasks like summarization.

BartConfig

[[autodoc]] BartConfig - all

BartTokenizer

[[autodoc]] BartTokenizer - all

BartTokenizerFast

[[autodoc]] BartTokenizerFast - all

BartModel

[[autodoc]] BartModel - forward

BartForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] BartForConditionalGeneration - forward

BartForSequenceClassification

[[autodoc]] BartForSequenceClassification - forward

BartForQuestionAnswering

[[autodoc]] BartForQuestionAnswering - forward

BartForCausalLM

[[autodoc]] BartForCausalLM - forward